Show J LARGER FOWL BEST TYPE FOR BROILER how feed cost can best bo be estimated the cost of broiler production depends upon many circumstances to which a definite figure cannot be attached since they vary with each case about all that can be said to IB that broilers brought to 12 weeks of age and made ready for market will if properly fed have consumed fro from m 8 to 10 pounds each of a well bal an ed rat ration ion in t the he ca case se or of the lar larger ger breeds like the plymouth rocks or rhode island reds about a pound less it if leghorns Leg horns are used chicks chick hatched batched or purchased for broiler production however should be of the larger type of fowls the rocks being asgood as good as any by as the cost of a growing mas mabb h for broilers such as the following one oue from cornell you may figure the feed cost very closely the mash mixture mentioned consists of 45 pounds yellow cornmeal 15 pounds flour wheat 10 pounds wheat brun bran 10 pounds line fine ground heavy oats 10 pounds dry skim milk I 1 pound pulverized limestone and one half pound fine salt the cost of chick grains may easily be ascertained also overhead costs vary with equipment facilities and experience of operator of plants plant but it should be said that experience Is needed if winter broiler production Is to be engaged in upon a considerable scale with any hope of satisfactory profit this phase of poultry production presents problems of its own proper feeding being but one among many exchange |